The Hollins House

I cannot stress enough, just how amazing the Hollins House was to work with. From the moment we booked our first tour to the moment our wedding ended, the Hollins House took incredible care of us. I had about 9 months to plan my wedding and found the Hollins House highly recommended on The Knot and on Yelp. Being able to easily book a tour online was already a win and then I got a follow up email from Giselle with more info to help prep us for our tour and that immediately impressed me too. Our first tour was amazing! Giselle walked us through everything, answering our many questions and provided us a quote at the end of our tour. We absolutely fell in love with the scenic views and the romantic landscape. Just to help solidify our gut feelings, we attempted to tour 2 other venues but they never responded back to us, which just reaffirmed that Hollins was the perfect place for our wedding. Once I reached out to Giselle and confirmed that we'd like to move forward, she diligently went to work providing me next steps, a vendor list and tentative budget breakdown. I cannot express how VALUABLE their vendor list was! I booked 3 out of 4 of my vendors from their list (Cake, Flowers & DJ) and they all did amazing. I'm a huge review seeker and had high expectations when it came to the communication turn around time with my vendors and am so thrilled with how well each vendor responded throughout the wedding planning process. I also have to point out something that I hadn't though of until booking vendors, but it's pretty helpful when your vendors have worked at the venue before and know the general layout of the space as well as timing for drop off/clean up on day of. So being able to reference these certified vendors instead of working from scratch with google searches saved me so much time and stress! I was diligent on my vendor bookings that I had 3 of the vendors booked within the first 2 months of planning my wedding and that wouldn't have been possible without the Hollin's vendor list. Now onto Giselle & Bella. I don't even know where to begin describing just how absolutely amazing each of these coordinators were to work with. I'm desperate to find some other event to plan at Hollins just so I have an excuse to work with them again. Being a bride and having to oversee so many details at once is insane already, so when you have venue coordinators who genuinely care and are willing to answer your many emails, entertain multiple visits and pivot for last minute requests, it is truly something invaluable. I want to give such a huge shout to them both because without them, I'm confident that my wedding day wouldn't have been nearly as magical. Hollins was already offering such beauty in every corner, but Giselle & Bella are undoubtedly the people that make Hollins the perfect place to get married. When I got engaged, I honestly didn't really know what I was looking for in a venue but now being on the other side of getting married, I cannot imagine having had my wedding day at any other place. When you can partner with a venue who have incredible coordinators that go to such lengths in order to ensure things go perfectly, I don't know how a bride could ask for any more!...Except maybe a time machine so I can go back and relive the perfect day!